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shoofly pie

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shoo-fly pie

[shoo-flahy]
–noun
an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.

Origin:
1925–30; so called in allusion to the attractiveness of the molasses to unwanted flies
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shoofly pie  
n.  A pie with a filling of molasses and brown sugar.

[So called because one will supposedly have to shoo away the flies attracted to the sweet filling.]
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